On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:29:41AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Thing is that they are broken, figuring out where the interpeter is > should always be done at compile/configure time. Having perl in > /usr/local/bin is very common for example, and simply hardcoding it to > /usr/bin will make things break.
A big point of hardcoding the path in system-critical scripts is that admins installing random versions of perl and pythong in /local will not be able to break them as they force the system installed version. Michael _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
